I think a lockdown assist would definitely help both. Nemesis as an anchor is SCARY, though the only problem is his speed. He seems reliant on a lockdown assist to start pressure.
fellow Nemesis players:
Any luck so far with “holding assists” like Chun Li’s LL assist? How about Strider’s vajira assist?
If you read the first page, or even this page you would’ve seen that Strider is Nemesis’ best friend.
Vajra is too good.
Nemesis with vajra is SCARY.
Nemesis as an anchor is meh imo.
I run Nemesis/Strider/Sentinel. Nemesis is way too nuts with Strider, but Sent drones are pretty crazy with his command throw shenanigans so far. People just don’t know what to do against Nemesis (at least yet).
Even if they knew what to do against Nem, dealing with Vajra is a whole different story. The only ways to stop vajra lead into you putting Nemesis in an extremely favorable position.
Nemesis should be 1st or 2nd. He needs assists to keep people locked down.
Vajra is possibly the best assist for him, but I think Franks shopping cart is a good alternative.
Shopping cart is very good…unless it hits, then it scales combos so badly. :X
Thats why god invented resets.
Too bad they’re not guaranteed.
How well do you guys think Spencer works with Nemesis? Spencer would appreciate the hard knockdown from Slam assist so he could start his OTG Wire into whatever, and it looks like Nem might appreciate Slant Shot. Their DHC’s also seem to be decent, as shown by Combo last night.
If you’re playing Nemesis, you should do resets.
Just saying. Figure out multiple ways to reset so you don’t only have one option.
He’s not as good as an anchor as Sentinel IMO, While he can, like Sentinel kill every character in the cast with one combo, XF 2 or + applied Sentinel has allot easier time getting because of flight mode and some of his normals. Nemesis without assists is difficult and you have to play really smart and choose your battles. By himself going for the kara-cancel command grabs and resets is a good idea when he’s alone, or using all of his safe moves and punish an attempt by the opponent.
I’m also trying out Nemesis/Hawkeye (Triple Shot)/Strider (Vajra) now
Its either between Triple Shot or Scatter shot but I think tripper shot works better for controlling ground space.
Lol? Have you not read a single post by me?
I’m a reset enthusiast.
That doesn’t change the fact that his resets are not guaranteed, thus you want to maximize damage before you have to reset and assists that scale his combos badly are not pleasant.
Losing 200k damage just because shopping cart hit = Bad
How do you guys feel about Ammy/Nemmy/Dorm? I don’t have UMvC3 yet, but I plan on running this team and just wanted some feedback.
Tomorrow, I’m going to try out Haggar/Nemesis.
I think that using Clocket assist could help me combo off of Haggar’s OTG and then jump and use Giant Swing. I’ll have to try it out.
I also found that Nemesis/RR is pretty good. Log Trap covers lots of space, and it lets him combo off of OTG in certain situations. Also, in the corner if you combo into Bioweapon Assault and then DHC when he bounces them into the Spring hyper, you can then tag Nemesis back in, they hit the spring, and you get a clocket H or rocket slam H into Biohazard rush, after which you can DHC into spring trap again and tag Nemesis back in.
They’re fun to use together, because Rocket has tons of tools and Nemesis has tons of damage, so if I can use Rocket to extend Nemesis’s combos like that, they do lots of damage. Now to find a good way to get a hit with RR’s great high/low game and then switch to Nemesis for the damage.
You should definitely be able to do that with the Launcher Slam assist so long as you haven’t already used the ground bounce by starting with the Pipe or something. Just call Nemesis before doing the OTG and it will ground bounce and give you ages to combo afterwards.
It’s what you get for using it.
Wesker/Doom/Nemmy THC is pretty cool in the corner. The stomp on Biohazard Assault gives Wesker time extend the combo a little bit, in which you can do QCF+B -> Maximum Wesker for extra damage if you have the meter.
Anyone found any good stuff with RL Slam assist as a combo extender for Doom? Only time it seems to work decently for me is after a few reps of the corner loop, assist call, s.C xx PA. Would like to use it in some other parts, like how Wesker can use it.
wesker/nemeses/spiderman? web ball/deadly reach hit confirms for nemesis sounds nice. my team is wesker/nemesis/doom. hidden missiles benefits nemesis more than wesker. depending on your point you might wanna change dooms assist. oh and idk if anyone has done this but maximum wesker xfator cancel into TAC nemesis is a one hit kill on any character
Hmmm. Reread my last post and I felt that I got the wrong message. I meant to ask if Chun’s LL assist can be as good or even “nearly” as good as Strider’s Vajra assist but I can get the feel from the entire thread that Vajra’s the way to go; was wondering if LL can be used if I play more offensively.
Granted, Vajra is a VERY VERY good assist for Nem, but I’ve had my ass handed to me by a point Nem who uses Sent’s charging drones assist; they linger too slow, preventing my usual rushdown chars (wesker/chun) to charge in and pressure Nem.
I use Wesker (low shot; my new team anchor) and Nem (launcher slam; the new point) and so far, I’m having some success with Chun AND Strider.
Given that I use Wesker and Nem, can Chun deal with the two’s bad MU’s better than Strider?
Thanks
I honestly don’t think Strider has a bad matchup at all in the entire game, he has way many tools to deal with just about everything, you just can’t make mistakes.
and to answer your initial question, LL isn’t a bad assist, but compared to the flexibility and synergy of Vajra the comparison shouldn’t even be brought up imo.
As assists they accomplish completely different things, both of which Nemesis benefits from; but the pros and cons are highly in vajras favor.
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Somebody please make a vajra t-shirt, I will buy it @_@
Which is? Something that doesn’t help him any better than plasma beam?